Yes, Adele and Skyfall are wonderful, but I was sad that the Les Miserables team didn’t win for best original song. I agree “Suddenly” was far from the best song in the score but it was the one opportunity for the team to be recognized. And after that rousing Les Miserables number, wasn’t everyone rooting for them, too? Just a little?

I did love seeing our homegrown singer Norah Jones up on stage making her Oscar debut, even if it was for performing a song from Seth MacFarlane’s Ted (Ted himself probably being my least favorite thing about this telecast to date). Always glad to see good things for The Booker T. Washington HIgh School for the Performing Arts alumna, who released her acclaimed album, Little Broken Hearts, in 2012 (the same year her father, Ravi Shankar, died).MORE OSCARS COVERAGE

Screen. Big Screen. On this week’s show we fall for Skyfall, which gets my vote as the best Bond movie to date. (Caveat: Not a big Bond guy). Then, yo, we talk to talk to Aaron Paul about Breaking Bad and his new film, Smashed. (Meth TV show: gateway drug to alcoholic movie). Listen up right here, and you are well advised to subscribe on itunes.

Judy Dench (M) and Daniel Craig (James Bond) at a preview party for "Skyfall." The poster in the background appears on the back cover of the Dorling Kindersley coffee-table book of Bond posters.

Unless you’ve been in a self-imposed media blackout for the last few weeks, you’re certainly aware that the 23rd official James Bond movie, Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig as Agent 007, opens Friday. We know you’ll want to study ahead, and also to relive the wonderfulness of the film after so see it — IMHO, it’s by far the best of the Bond crop — so here are some ideas to keep you in Bond mode for the foreseeable future.

* The ultra-fabulous Dorling Kindersley coffee-table book (and it’s so big you could actually make it into a coffee table) James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters. DMN books editor Michael Merschel was fairly drooling over it at my desk this week, with good reason — it’s a browser’s delight, with four-color renditions of posters from all of the “official” James Bond movies, and, in a boon for non-purists who nonetheless adore Sean Connery, also the “unofficial” one, 1983′s Never Say Never Again. You’ll see U.S. and foreign versions of the posters, as well as a few outtakes and lots of insider info.

A poster that we probably would not have printed when the movie came out in 1981.

Mike remembers the poster for 1981′s For Your Eyes Only and its original image of a Bond girl’s long, long legs, ending in a perky bikini-clad butt. But when the studio got complaints that it was too racy, the subsequent ads sported a black box over the offending girl parts. Some papers edited the image above the knees, the book says, and later versions of the poster had the booty covered in a pair of jean shorts. Of course, no one had any complaints about the woman’s other accessory — a very nasty looking dart-thrower thingy. The book’s a great deal at $50 and there’s also an app available for $4.99 for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

* If you’re really intrigued by the posters, fly to Hollywood (or just go online) to take part in an auction of the originals, Dec. 15-16 at Profiles in History. In addition to posters, the auction will feature stills and other ephemera. Included are a Dr. No special-advance silkscreen U.K. double-crown poster from 1962, arguably the first James Bond poster to appear in public. It’s expected to fetch $3,000-$5,000. Find out more at profilesinhistory.com.

* Or, go to New York City for what sounds like a fascinating exhibit: “SPY: The Secret World of Espionage” at Discovery Times Square features a vast collection of secret-agent stuff collected with the participation of the CIA and FBI, and including James Bond gadgets and six real artifacts from the Argo operation.

* There’s also an exhibit opening Nov. 16 at Washington, D.C.’s International Spy Museum: “Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains,” will feature James Bond’s chief adversaries, their henchmen, lairs, and weapons. More 100 artifacts from the films will be on display including Zao’s Jaguar XKR from Die Another Day, the destroyed satellite from Goldeneye, Jaws’ teeth from The Spy Who Loved Me, and Dr. No’s tarantula from Dr. No. Visitors can also swim with sharks, become a villain and create their own personal lair as part of the exhibit’s many interactive displays. The museum also offers Spy City tours of D.C.

* Or, stay at home on your couch for a marathon viewing of the “Top 10 Spy Movies Chosen By Real-Life Former Spies,” collected in a survey by the Long Island Spy Museum. Spy movies, by the way, are considered great recruiting tools by the CIA, FBI and their covert brethren worldwide. Here are the winning films: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979 version, technically a miniseries); Munich (2005); Ronin (1998); The 39 Steps (1935); Eye of the Needle (1981); Three Days of the Condor (1975): The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965); Body of Lies (2008, and my favorite of the bunch — I mean, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; The Good Shepherd (2006); and The Tailor of Panama (2001). Obviously, John le Carre, the author whose books were the basis for three of the Top 10 (Tinker, Tailor; In From the Cold; and The Tailor of Panama) beats Ian Fleming and his James Bond series (NONE in the Top 10!?) in the eyes of the real spooks. At least Tailor of Panama stars Pierce Brosnan, one of five actors to played 007. Visit the museum’s website at longislandspymuseum.org.